Sarah Dessen Quotes

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Let's just start and see what happens.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous"- "Keeping the Moon

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Too many locks, not enough keys.

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie